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Invest In Your Upcoming Marriage

What could be more important than finding the perfect dress, picking just the right song for the first dance, or getting a great deal on a honeymoon destination?

Planning for a marriage that will last a lifetime.

Women spend an average of 9.8 hours a week planning their weddings.* But how much time do engaged couples spend planning for their marriage? None of us are born knowing how to be married happily. And for those of you that have parents who are divorced, you may never have seen a successful relationship in your day-to-day life. How are you supposed to learn?

Premarital education is a prevention-oriented and positive approach to teaching couples skills to communicate and resolve problems in a healthy, affirming way. People often think of the idea of “couples counseling” as something that happens because a couple has problems. And often, it is. But therapeutic couples’ education exists to PREVENT these kinds of problems and grow a couple even closer together.

PREPARE/ENRICH is a customized couples assessment that shares with you in INCREDIBLE detail what is most strong about your relationship. It will also tell you what areas you can grow in as a couple – and then with the help of a trained facilitator [like Stephanie Adams, LPC] give you easy-to-use tools to strengthen your upcoming or existing marriage.

What can PREPARE/ENRICH offer my relationship?

You will…

Learn to identify your STRENGTHS as a couple and build new ones.

Increase your communication skills.

Uncover stressful areas and resolve conflicts.

Explore your families of origin.

Comfortably discuss financial issues.

Establish personal, couple and family goals.

Understand and appreciate personality differences.

Any long-term relationship can benefit from PREPARE/ENRICH. It doesn’t matter whether you and your partner are engaged or cohabiting, are newlyweds, or have been married for years. If you’re in a committed relationship, PREPARE/ENRICH will give you the tools you need for long-term success.

PREPARE/ENRICH Quick Facts:

Couples receiving PREPARE/ENRICH assessments and feedback from a trained facilitator significantly increased their relationship satisfaction compared to the control groups receiving no intervention or the assessment with no further feedback. 83% of the highest risk couples moved to a more stable relationship level, and the number of most satisfied couples grew 52% after assessment and feedback.[1]

In a 3-year follow-up of 179 couples who took PREPARE/ENRICH when engaged, it was discovered that the tool predicted happy marriages and divorces with 80% accuracy.[2] Couples in the high-risk categories can improve their marital outcomes with the help of a trained facilitator.

PREPARE/ENRICH can be customized for:

Groups

Faith backgrounds such as Catholic, nondenominational, Protestant and faith-neutral

Stepfamilies

Couples adopting a child

TWOGETHER In Texas:

Completing 8 counseling sessions with a trained PREPARE/ENRICH Facilitator fulfills the requirement for the TWOGETHER in Texas marriage education benefit of a free marriage license! [3]

To get your personalized couples assessment and hundreds more tips, tools and resources, contact me!

[1] Knutson & Olson. (2003). Effectiveness of PREPARE Program With Premarital Couples In Community Settings. Marriage and Family. 529-546
[2] Larsen & Olson. (1989). Predicting Marital Satisfaction Using PREPARE: A Replication Study. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. (15) 3, 311-322.
[3] State fees waived, but doesn’t provide exemption from local fees, which are usually $10-12.